01935oam 2200361z 450 991081210660332120230206230819.00-522-87074-0(CKB)4100000007758737(MiAaPQ)EBC5683803(EXLCZ)99410000000775873720190317d2016 uy 0engtxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe Turnbull gamble /Wayne Errington, Peter van OnselenCarlton, Vic.:Melbourne University Press Digital,2016.1 online resource0-522-87073-2 Transaction costs: past and present -- The bower bird -- An agile start -- The Delcons -- Doubling down -- Eight weeks is a long time in politics -- Mediscare -- You had one job.The Liberal Party took a risk replacing Tony Abbott with Malcolm Turnbull. They had seen how voters could turn when the ALP tore down a first-term prime minister. But MPs were desperate, having witnessed the collapse in polling during Abbott's prime ministership. By the time Turnbull called the election it was still unclear what he wanted to achieve. He seemed strangely underprepared for a job that he had fought so long to win. Turnbull leads a party whose culture he doesn't share. While the narrow election victory may have justified the gamble to place him in office, does Turnbull have the leadership qualities needed to break the cycle of division and instability of the last decade?Prime ministersAustraliaPolitical leadershipAustraliaAustraliaPolitics and government21st centuryPrime ministersPolitical leadershipErrington Wayne1597794Van Onselen PeterBOOK9910812106603321The Turnbull gamble3919700UNINA